Documented Statements from Pressure Team Members Regarding Zeal
Clarifications: Valid evidence simply means screenshots that directly correlate with claims that were made. It just means the most relevant.
"As much as I would like to pretend for it all (the work environment) to be good, it was pretty terrible at times, especially right before updates. The people were all extremely good and nice, the writers, scripters, modelers, animators. But Zeal himself did cause most of the stress a lot of the times.
During updates he would be incredibly mad, and if someone pointed out a bug that he already knew of, then he would immediately resort to yelling at that person. That occurred for pretty much everything, whether it was an accidental fuck-up or if something happened."
(Whales, on Twitter / X)
"At some point Zeal joined a VC some of us were in, where he wanted us to help with 'writing a response against Wenda.'
It was clear a small mob was growing due to what some of the public saw was a completely unnecessary firing, and Zeal was completely losing his mind over this.
There was a lot of yelling from him during all of it, and we were trying to get him to calm down.
I think Wil told at some point had told him to calm down with the response, and to at least wait a day and fully think it through. Zeal yelled pretty badly at Wil during that, so they left immediately. At some point I think Zeal even yelled, 'Why does this always happen to me?'
In my view, the situation was really not that bad and could have been handled much better.
(Whales, on Twitter / X)
"These calls were extremely tense. I would stop attending them because it would always evolve into Zeal yelling at someone or something about the game. People regularly talked about how much they dreaded these calls during this part of the development cycle."
(Kat, in their document / response)
"From approximately March 2025 up until April 2026, Zeal would harass me, sexually or not."
(Kat, in their document / response)
"I have told him multiple times to stop. He would at first take it well, but the behavior would start again regardless. I often felt compelled to participate in regularly talking about suggestive pictures and topics."
(Kat, in their document / response)
"Zerum advocated for improvement that Zeal never improved upon."
(Kat, in their document / response) (Throughout the span of evidence shared, there is an apparent pattern of Zeal not properly taking accountability.)
"Because of my experiences with Zeal, multiple of my friends outside of Roblox offered to come with me to RDC so I would not have to be alone with him."
(Kat, in their document / response)
Screenshot 20260422 074752 Kiwi Browser : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive - This is a link to the Internet Archive where someone writes about their experience with Kat.
"...Along with telling us Zeal would not stop flirting with them, even in a sexual manner."
"Bunny Talk" / Fluffy Patterns Featured in Ren's Document
"While in contact with the team, I also noticed the same 'bunny talk' that was used with Ren being used with me. I do not believe this was done with the intent to manipulate, but it is important to know that this way of talking was a very real language that the team used with not only each other but other people."
(Mr-lightt) (If you see this and have problems with this being included in this post, I'll remove it as soon as I'm notified! I just thought it was important to have claims from a variety of people :[)
Manipulation Surrounding the Incident
"October 2025, I was told that Ren had 'taken advantage of Zeal's autism and assaulted him.' This individual, and I, were both fed the wrong narrative, and it pains me that I believed it. Shame on the people complicit."
(Cerl, on Twitter / X) (Further context in images below)
"In hindsight, I recognize that I did not have full visibility into the situation. While Zeal provided evidence, Ren’s evidence greatly outnumbered what I had initially seen."
(Wil, in their document / response) (Context: When Zeal learned that Ren was preparing to write a document, Zeal shared contents of a response of his own to Wil)
Valid Evidence:
(This includes the images above, but I wanted them to be included by the claim for additional context)
I got these from Zombiey's latest (?) video. Looking at them again and actually realizing what I was looking at makes me feel slightly sick.
Ren vents about the incident, clearly uncertain about how to feel or what happened... A friend runs to Zeal about it... And Zeal responds by making a document called "Incase Ren decides to do something stupid." Presumably, this may have been the document that was shared with Wil and the others. That is so fucking suspicious. And I'm not trying to make like by using extreme wording, this is quite possibly one of the most damning pieces of evidence we have access to.
Overall Lack of Professionalism
"There was resistance to having more structured and direct communications between team members, developers, and other contributors we worked with. It felt disorganized, and I felt like we had to have everything go through Zeal."
(Kat, in their document / response)
"There was a joke going on between some individuals in Pressure that men would come to me to talk to Zeal and that I was the mouthpiece. This joke was because I’m “a girl” (I am afab), so he would listen to me, alongside his previous romantic feelings about me."
(Kat, in their document / response)
"I felt like I had to be in most, if not all, Pressure contributor calls because I felt I had to be there to ensure they would go smoothly. And, as I state above, Zeal would sometimes not start certain conversations until I was present in the voice call.
(Kat, in their document / response)
Over time, I’ve experienced ongoing stress within the team dynamic that became difficult for me to manage healthily, the expectations around work combined with how much I personally took on, led to a situation where I was consistently overextending myself. [...] I faced massive amounts of unprofessionalism over the extent of my time on this team, and i tolerated treatment that I should not have tolerated. I thought this was just how Zeal talked to people. I was made aware of his treatment of Kat, but Kat repeatedly insisted not to say anything about it and that they would handle it."
(Wil, in their document / response)
"I have repeatedly put my identity, my safety, and my mental health on the line just to continue work on this game despite the fact that it almost always ended up leaving me worse than before. [...] I cannot work for someone that repeatedly jeopardizes my integrity."
(Wil, on Twitter / X)
This ties it all together in a neat bow, I bet:
Following the release of the initial document, Kat attempted to reconnect with Ren. They are no longer reconnecting and have split apart yet again.
Previously, Kat stated, "Even if my perspective was manipulated, I take blame for further perpetuating lies and causing Ren more harm."
We can't know for sure what Kat's stance is at this very moment, but at the very least, it serves as an admission for what was shown in the section "Manipulation Surrounding the Incident."
In Kat's document, they claim that Zeal paid them unfairly more than other team members. They provide a screenshot of refunding $10,000 dollars they had received.
As far as I'm aware, there are no comments from other team members to verify this claim.
Do we have any screenshots proving that Zeal knew that Ren and Kat were not on speaking terms?
"We had told Zeal to not interact with Ren multiple times. Kat had shared their own interactions with Ren and they were not taken seriously. Zeal ignored this advice and continued to interact with Ren anyways." (Wil, in their document / response)
